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Monday, October 28, 2013

Then you wouldn’t miss news like this exciting announcement:
“Key sets, costumes and props” from Steven Spielberg’s movie “Lincoln” will be
displayed “for many years to come” in an exhibit, “Lincoln: From History to
Hollywood.”

The sets for Lincoln’s office and Mary Lincoln’s bedroom will be in the
exhibit at Union Station, across 6th Street from the museum in Springfield, Ill.,
beginning in early 2014.

The exhibit will also include costumes, such as Lincoln’s suit, some of Mary
Lincoln’s dresses and young Tad Lincoln’s Zouave uniform, as well as props like
the stethoscope used in the death scene, papers and magazines used as office
props, and the gloves Daniel Day Lewis wore in his Academy Award-winning
performance of Lincoln.

Union Station will serve as a museum annex, with video presentations about the
movie to complement the exhibit.

Admission for children will be free, when accompanied by adults, whose
admission charge is $5. A new “full experience” package offers museum visitors
a savings, though. For $15, which is $3 more than museum-only admission, adults
can see both the museum and its annex “Lincoln” exhibit.

Spielberg and DreamWorks Studios are loaning the items to the museum, with transportation
costs covered by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation, not tax
dollars.

“It is an honor to have this exhibit at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential
Library and Museum,” says Spielberg. “When we visited for research on the film,
it was our thought that there might be an opportunity to bring such an exhibit
to Springfield, and that is now a reality.”

From one Lincoln buff to another, I say, Kudos,
Mr. Speilberg! Your movie resurrected the Lincoln story, eliciting a new wave
of interest in the 16th President, his life and legacy. Thank you! I
can’t wait to see the exhibit.

One of the presentations that touched me the most that day was a three-generation panel of scholars, which included a young scholar named Matthew Pinsker, prolific Lincoln author Harold Holzer (representing the in-between demographic ), and a gentleman who was then a patriarch of Lincoln scholars, David Herbert Donald, Pinsker’s mentor. I was glad I met the elder scholar that day, and received his autograph in my copy of his book, “Lincoln.” Donald passed away four years later, a few months after the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth.

One of the greatest changes we’ve seen in the way we can educate and inspire about the 16th president is through the use of technology – and Donald’s student is doing it well.

Pinsker holds the Brian Pohanka Chair of Civil War History at Dickinson College. He is the author of two books about Lincoln, one of which is “Lincoln’s Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers’ Home.” He is also co-director of the House Divided project, which provides 21st century tools to teach 19th century topics in grades K-12.

This is what a "virtual" field trip looks like... Check out short video tour of new Ford's Theatre Center for Education & Leadership, by @DickinsonCol prof Matthew Pinsker, via @Gilder_Lehrman http://t.co/reSic0tl3i